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Originally posted by OFISHE8
That is exactly what I did. I felt that Center opposite table had yet to get into a position to make the call.
This is the classic case of not trusting your partner. If you had a train wreck you could have held your whistle and waited for your partner or you could have blown your whistle with fist up and no signal. I'm hoping you had a double whistle and at the same time you both signalled Block and Charge respectively? If you both had fists up (no signal) and then discussed it I can't believe you settled on a double foul. Also if it's a semi fast break how could you possibly be aware of the Centers position. You should have been refereeing the defense.
Thus, I came with the call from Lead table side on a semi fast break and from my angle had a charge. He came strong because of our pregame and the discussion we had on coverage areas and drives to the bucket.
If Center called it as per your pregame you should have gone with his call. Otherwise why have a pregame.
He saw block and I saw charge. We got together and took our time and made the rulebook "ruling". Do I agree with the rulebook? On some things I do, but we cannot disregard the rulebook in cases like this. It is similar to the situation on a previous post about the Timer starting the clock on an inbounds play when the official mistakenly chops the clock on a pass along the baseline to another teammate out of bounds. Similar situation
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Either you as Lead or the Center was wrong. One of you should have backed off. With a double foul you both were wrong.